The role of the teacher is to create the conditions for invention rather than provide ready-made knowledge.

I am convinced that the best learning takes place when the learner takes charge.

Every maker of video games knows something that the makers of curriculum don't seem to understand. You'll never see a video game being advertised as being easy. Kids who do not like school will tell you it's not because it's too hard. It's because it's--boring

The goal is to teach in such a way as to produce the most learning from the least teaching.

The reason most kids don't like school is not that the work is too hard, but that it is utterly boring.

A programming language is like a natural, human language in that it favors certain methaphors, images, and ways of thinking.

The word constructionism is a mnemonic for two aspects of the theory of science education underlying this project. From constructivist theories of psychology we take a view of learning as a reconstruction rather than as a transmission of knowledge. Then we extend the idea of manipulative materials to the idea that learning is most effective when part of an activity the learner experiences as constructing a meaningful product.